In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest.

We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.

The HaloWars.com forums are both new and very busy. It has been difficult at time to get at the interesting discussions because so much time has been taken up by the same issues over and over again. Since the announcement of Halo Wars, some eleven thousand posts have been made. About half of them are about why marines have battle rifles.

Things are improving. Their FAQ, while short, one can assume will be expanded at some point. Two sticky threads, on most-often discussed issues and instructions to new posters have gone up to try and keep duplicates to a minimum.

Still, this has barely stemmed the tide of those who wonder about the battle rifle’s presence.

I’ll try to put this question to rest once and for all here. Wish me luck.

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The buzz has died down a bit, but there are still a few sites catching up with the X06 Halo Wars bombshell. The latest is the BBC’s site, which quoted Bungie’s Brian “SketchFactor” Jarrard as well as HBO’s own fansite editor, Claude “Louis Wu” Errera.

As for why a Halo RTS by Ensemble, Sketch put it nicely:

“Halo started as an RTS. Would the Bungie team love to do one themselves? Possibly.

“We are not focused on that. We’ve got a lot of work to do on Halo 3 and a trilogy to finish.”

As for Wu, he was cautiously optimistic. Or optimistically cautious, depending:

“The entire team has been working on Halo games since 1998 and they are probably tired of it. But there are still stories to tell.”

I suppose if one works on Halo games long enough, Pimps at Sea starts to look like a really good idea.

The buzz has died down a bit, but there are still a few sites catching up with the X06 Halo Wars bombshell. The latest is the BBC’s site, which quoted Bungie’s Brian “SketchFactor” Jarrard as well as HBO’s own fansite editor, Claude “Louis Wu” Errera.

As for why a Halo RTS by Ensemble, Sketch put it nicely:

“Halo started as an RTS. Would the Bungie team love to do one themselves? Possibly.

“We are not focused on that. We’ve got a lot of work to do on Halo 3 and a trilogy to finish.”

As for Wu, he was cautiously optimistic. Or optimistically cautious, depending:

“The entire team has been working on Halo games since 1998 and they are probably tired of it. But there are still stories to tell.”

I suppose if one works on Halo games long enough, Pimps at Sea starts to look like a really good idea.

Indie in the Halo Wars forum pointed out some listings from the jobs page at Ensemble Studios. What he found particularly interesting were two items for MMO environmental and concept artists; what I find interesting are the console programmer and Xbox Live developer positions.

Ensemble hasn’t really said a word yet about the features of Halo Wars, but it seems logical to conclude they’d at least be trying for multiplayer on Xbox Live. If not… what’s the point, really?

Indie in the Halo Wars forum pointed out some listings from the jobs page at Ensemble Studios. What he found particularly interesting were two items for MMO environmental and concept artists; what I find interesting are the console programmer and Xbox Live developer positions.

Ensemble hasn’t really said a word yet about the features of Halo Wars, but it seems logical to conclude they’d at least be trying for multiplayer on Xbox Live. If not… what’s the point, really?

1Up is reporting that EGM’s issue #210, presumably the December 2006 issue if it will hit newsstands on November 14th as they claim, will feature Halo 3 in a big way. The current issue has a teaser for that feature.

1Up is reporting that EGM’s issue #210, presumably the December 2006 issue if it will hit newsstands on November 14th as they claim, will feature Halo 3 in a big way. The current issue has a teaser for that feature.